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I
heard, as if I had no Ear
Until a Vital Word
Came all the way
from Life to me
And then I knew
I heard -
I saw, as if my Eye
were on
Another, till a Thing
And now I know
'twas Light, because
It fitted them, came
in.
I dwelt, as if Myself
were out,
My Body but within
Until a Might detected me
And set my Kernel in -
And Spirit turned
unto the Dust
"Old Friend, thou
knowest Me",
And Time went
out to tell the News
And met Eternity
Not so the infinite
Relations - Below
Division is Adhesion's
forfeit - On High
Affliction but a
speculation - And Wo
A Fallacy, a Figment,
We knew -
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